Making this forum more useful...

djnr · Post by **djnr** » February 12th, 2003, 10:09 am

I suggest starting a thread for each nightly build. Each thread would be a place for people to post comments about that build: new bugs, bugs fixed, etc., with links to bugzilla for tracking the specific bugs.

Right now it's hard to figure out which nightlies work on which platforms and which don't.

Post by **alanjstr** » February 12th, 2003, 10:19 am

Part of the problem is that people will report the same bugs day after day. Checkins can be tracked via
http://backprop.net/mozilla/bonsaibugs/ ... h=moztrunk
http://backprop.net/mozilla/bonsaibugs/ ... ch=phoenix

Significant trunk checkins are mentioned daily in the Mozilla Builds group. I think it's better to have threads that are bug-specific than day specific.

djnr · Post by **djnr** » February 12th, 2003, 10:38 am

How about a thread on best current builds then? It's harder than it should be to figure when the risk-averse among us should upgrade to a newer nightly.

VinceVW · Post by **VinceVW** » February 12th, 2003, 11:05 am

hehe, I agree that everyone should feel free to report a working build, even if that is the only message. Especially after 01. feb, I'm a bit more careful about trying the more recent builds.

Smokey · Post by **Smokey** » February 13th, 2003, 9:01 am

alanjstr wrote: I think it's better to have threads that are bug-specific than day specific.

i believe he's just talking about the Phoenix Builds Forum.
bug specific threads should be started in the Phoenix Bugs forum...

Henke · Post by **Henke** » February 13th, 2003, 12:54 pm

Use the standard format YYYYMMDD when talking about builds. Not MM/DD, DD/MM, DD/MM/YY och the most unlogical MM/DD/YY. Its so hard to understand what i.e. 01/03/02 means when all these strange formats appears in the forum.

thenightfly42 · Post by **thenightfly42** » February 13th, 2003, 1:38 pm

Henke wrote:Use the standard format YYYYMMDD when talking about builds. Not MM/DD, DD/MM, DD/MM/YY och the most unlogical MM/DD/YY. Its so hard to understand what i.e. 01/03/02 means when all these strange formats appears in the forum.

Is MMDD considered acceptable, simply implying the year?

Post by **djst** » February 13th, 2003, 3:50 pm

thenightfly42 wrote:
Henke wrote:Use the standard format YYYYMMDD when talking about builds. Not MM/DD, DD/MM, DD/MM/YY och the most unlogical MM/DD/YY. Its so hard to understand what i.e. 01/03/02 means when all these strange formats appears in the forum.

Is MMDD considered acceptable, simply implying the year?

Standard is best. yyyy-mm-dd. Ordered by significance.

daihard · Post by **daihard** » February 13th, 2003, 6:31 pm

djst wrote:
thenightfly42 wrote:Is MMDD considered acceptable, simply implying the year?

Standard is best. yyyy-mm-dd. Ordered by significance.

I agree. I always get confused when people from different parts of the world use DD/MM/YYYY and MM/DD/YYYY freely.

bellgamin · Post by **bellgamin** » February 15th, 2003, 11:45 pm

Henke wrote:Use the standard format YYYYMMDD when talking about builds.

Yeth, & it's much easier to do a search if a standard format is used.

regards.....bellgamin
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Henke · Post by **Henke** » February 25th, 2003, 9:54 am

This thread should be sticky so people can find it easely.

I repeat: Use YYYYMMDD or YYYY-MM-DD.
Not XX/YY/ZZ where X, Y and Z is randomized between Y, M and D.

daihard · Post by **daihard** » February 25th, 2003, 9:58 am

Henke wrote:This thread should be sticky so people can find it easely.

I repeat: Use YYYYMMDD or YYYY-MM-DD.
Not XX/YY/ZZ where X, Y and Z is randomized between Y, M and D.

Sounds like a good idea.